It's pretty trivial to list reasons why you'd want a local chat app over a US created one.
It is just too difficult to make.
I don't think many people admit how differently we all think about software creation, all the tools that currently exist are shaped 100% around American big tech needs (cool i guess) and the American personality.
It is incredibly difficult to go off-piste and create a different paradigm on computing like Xerox did (which Jobs and Gates 'borrowed from').
The existing eco-system constantly updates/changes itself according to an American clock, so you get isolated and disconnected (from knowledge bases and relationships) if you try to go for a 'long shot'.
Even making small changes have to fit in with the existing eco-system.
99% of all the new ideas that could be made require radically different tooling and that is deeply expensive, constantly contentious with existing powers and disruptive to current services.
Sinply changing Google maps to list street names even when fully zoomed out OR to suggest vocaly three-moves-in-advance when driving.. is basically impossible.
Tech has clamped itself down and has no desire to allow anyone to tinker or tailor their own solutions.
It is deeply deeply frustrating to see what could be made better and to be arbitrarily locked out.
A policeman in France killed a teenager in cold blood and they set their city blocks on fire. Polticians are arguing over the presence (vaguely racist) of immigrants. There's a war in Ukraine flooding out Poland.
They have more local and pressing concerns, than this.
They already 'know everything' (or enough) to control my life.
You think I can rob a bank tomorrow and not be known? Past a certain 'crime threshold' and the three letter agencies take a keen interest in everything/anything I do... I'm out of trouble right now, that's all.
Let them control everything... in the long long term it will be flipped against them. 1984 oppressed the political class.
And when the political class flees visible power... the same 'cybersecurity' folks will occupy the power vacuum, trapping themselves in their own tech bubble.
I've never seen someone so Secure.. as someone who constantly preens his security cameras, his up-to-date door locks, his impenetrable garage walls....
The whole state of tech right now is a racket, designed to make those pigs 'more equal than others' feel emotionally safe in their data centres.
The only way to get the pigs off our back is to manualize tech and make all the average joes on this planet, able to control tech from top to bottom, completely transparently and completely separate from the System.
When my son can trivially modify the instruction set on the CPU in his Smart Chainsaw, and reconfigure every single bit of code and enter every abstraction layer - as easily as we change capacitors on a dishwasher - then the guy in the security bunker analyzing every single molecule entering his 'secure enviornment' is laughably 'secure'...
An oppressive internet that they can bully, works for them.
An internet that withdraws into itself and the EU returns to pen and paper + dumb phones works for them.
The US is all on this. As long as the US owns the internet and big tech, they are happy to let other countries do the dirty work of setting boundaries.
The long term solution is to 'manualize' tech. Make all tech we touch, open and ready to modify, run at full capacity and be easily controlled by a single man.
The only way to keep tech free, is to take it out of the System's hands and put it into the hands of the average joe, for his control.
Step-fathers and step-children are well known vectors of abuse. The Cinderella Effect was verified to produce more abuse from step-relationships up to and including lethal beatings from step-fathers.
Legally it might not be relevant for whatever structural reason, but the reality is that it matters a lot.
I did prompt engineer, using the 'you are an expert, desribe to student with examples' in many different variations.
In my testing prompts did not unlock an ability in GPT to grok the structure of code.
Empirical testing of LLM's is going to prove and map out it's weaknesses.
It is wise to infer from intution and examples what it can handle, leave the empirical map of it's capabilities to the academics, for the provable conclusions.
Oh come on. I fed Unreal c++ engine code to ChatGPT4 and it couldn't understand inheritence in Slate classes and therefore kept offering me the same broken solution for a parameter with the wrong type.
The Unreal engine code is documented and publicly avaiable for OpenAI to ingest and it still gets the basics wrong.
I wasted hours trying to get it to explain to me what I didn't know, if it doesn't understand the internals of Unreal, I have no hope for it on bigger and better codebases.
It doesn't parse, it doesn't explain, it does not grok. It guesses at best and the blood sucking robot-horse is not telling the truth.
He knew his style of films were over, so he sold the franchise and let Disney take the burn for it.
It's difficult to see this as a political event, where he was outplayed.
He's worked with and against the big cats in Hollywood his whole career, he specifically made career decisions to 'get away' from Hollywood meddling in his work.
He knew what he was doing and this mythical George Lucas character, who is victim and hero in one man, is getting a bit long in the tooth.
It is just too difficult to make.
I don't think many people admit how differently we all think about software creation, all the tools that currently exist are shaped 100% around American big tech needs (cool i guess) and the American personality.
It is incredibly difficult to go off-piste and create a different paradigm on computing like Xerox did (which Jobs and Gates 'borrowed from').
The existing eco-system constantly updates/changes itself according to an American clock, so you get isolated and disconnected (from knowledge bases and relationships) if you try to go for a 'long shot'.
Even making small changes have to fit in with the existing eco-system.
99% of all the new ideas that could be made require radically different tooling and that is deeply expensive, constantly contentious with existing powers and disruptive to current services.
Sinply changing Google maps to list street names even when fully zoomed out OR to suggest vocaly three-moves-in-advance when driving.. is basically impossible.
Tech has clamped itself down and has no desire to allow anyone to tinker or tailor their own solutions.
It is deeply deeply frustrating to see what could be made better and to be arbitrarily locked out.